Sunday, 1 November 2015

Well I have a had a fantastic day at Tattershall today. Mum and I decided to go to the dabble day which was organised by the owners of Let's create shop Mark and Jo Channon.

There were four different projects to complete during the day, lunch was provided with plenty of homemade yummy things and in the afternoon we had afternoon tea with cakes!

The first project we did was a gift card. We did this project with Caroline Whatling. I really enjoyed learning the inking techniques on this project. Here is my finished card.

We then made this fabulous candle holder with Jo Channon. I loved this as it would be cheap to make for Christmas presents but looks really effective. I will definitely be making more of these.

These pictures really don't do this justice! The images came a lot richer once the glue was dry.

After lunch we made a card using Tattered Lace Dies with Lizzy Curtis. My Mum loved using the baby blue die cutting machine and I think I will be seeing one in her craft room very soon!

After afternoon tea we did our final project with Antony Minnis and Samantha Thompson from Pinflair. I have never made anything like this but I loved it. I will be definitely making more MDF projects in the future. We used candle wax as a resist and then stamped over the top, just brilliant. Here is my finished sleigh.

As you can see I have made some lovely things and have had a fantastic day.

Thank you to everyone who was involved it was brilliant and we will be back in April for the next one.

Saturday, 31 October 2015

Well it has been so long since I have last blogged. Time just seems to go nowhere!

Through the summer I have made my Christmas cards but other than that I really haven't done a lot of crafting.

I am finding I am watching and looking at what everybody else is doing and doing none myself!

Anyway I decided last minute to enter the Spectrum noir October challenge.

The theme is grey and orange.

I decided to make the card into a birthday card so I could give it as a birthday card for my friends son whose birthday is in November.

The digital stamp was free from Complete Cardmaking and is from Pollycraft.

I coloured the image using the following spectrum noir pens

Jacket BG1, BG2, BG4

Jeans TB3, TB5, TB7 and then went over the top with BT4

Shoes BGR1 and Blender

Hair GB2, GB8

T Shirt OR1, OR2,OR3

Face/Hands FS2, FS3, TN2, CR3

To assemble the card I used a black card base. Then a orange mat. I then embossed a black piece of card using the textures embossing folder from Crafters Companion. I brought the embossing out using pebeo gilding wax renaissance gold.

I also embossed a grey piece of paper using the same embossing folder.

I then tore the grey and orange piece and assembled as shown.

The sentiment was stamped and came free from Crafters Companion Inspiration magazine.